Quarry of Val-Dieu-Charneux (Devonian of Belgium)

Where: Namur, Belgium (50.2° N, 5.4° E: paleocoordinates 17.5° S, 4.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Evieux Formation, Late/Upper Famennian (364.7 - 360.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, argillaceous, carbonaceous

• Agrillaceous shales with plant debris, carbonaceous. It is a series of beds. Barinophyton occurs in a very argillaceous shale near the base.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression, original carbon

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: F. Stockmans. 1948. Vegetaux du Devonien Superieur de la Belgique. Memoires du Musee Royal D'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 110:3-85 [P. Gensel/P. Gensel/P. Gensel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 32278: authorized by Pat Gensel, entered by Pat Gensel on 17.06.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

 Rhacophytales -
Villersia radians
  -
Villersia radians Stockmans 1948
Zosterophyllopsida
  -
Bucheria
  -
"? Bucheria valdei" = Rebuchia
"? Bucheria valdei" = Rebuchia
Equisetopsida
 Sphenophyllales -
Eviostachya hoegi Stockmans 1948
Aneurophytopsida
 Aneurophytales - Aneurophytaceae
Archaeopteridopsida
 Archaeopteridales - Archaeopteridaceae
Condrusia rumex
  -
Condrusia rumex Stockmans 1946
Sphenopteridae
  - Sphenopteridae